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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Predest.,God's foreknowledge and contingents' and 'Intro: Theories of Vagueness'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
568 Some things exist as substances, others as properties of substances [Aristotle]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
12348 There are four kinds of being: incidental, per se, potential and actual, and being as truth [Aristotle, by Wedin]
11194 Being is either what falls in the categories, or what makes propositions true [Aristotle, by Aquinas]
11288 Things are predicated of the basic thing, which isn't predicated of anything else [Aristotle]
15776 There is only being in a certain way, and without that way there is no being [Aristotle]
611 Being, taken simply as being, is the domain of philosophy [Aristotle]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
11232 Primary being ('proté ousia') exists in virtue of itself, not in relation to other things [Aristotle, by Politis]
11234 The three main candidates for primary being are particular, universal and essence; essence is the answer [Aristotle, by Politis]
11279 Primary being is either universals, or the basis of predication, or essence [Aristotle, by Politis]
11293 Non-primary beings lack essence, or only have a derived essence [Aristotle, by Politis]
11297 Primary being is both the essence, and the subject of predication [Aristotle, by Politis]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / g. Particular being
566 If nothing exists except individuals, how can there be a science of infinity? [Aristotle]
16090 Being must be understood with reference to one primary sense - the being of substance [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
570 Nothing is added to a man's existence by saying he is 'one', or that 'he exists' [Aristotle]
12061 The primary subject seems to be substance, to the fullest extent [Aristotle]
10946 Existence requires thisness, as quantity or quality [Aristotle]
16152 Other types of being all depend on the being of substance [Aristotle]
11295 There is no being unless it is determinate and well-defined [Aristotle, by Politis]
13735 Aristotle discusses fundamental units of being, rather than existence questions [Aristotle, by Schaffer,J]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
16118 Nature is an active principle of change, like potentiality, but it is intrinsic to things [Aristotle]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
15768 An actuality is usually thought to be a process [Aristotle]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence
11154 Prior things can exist without posterior things, but not vice versa [Aristotle]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
12095 Knowledge of potential is universal and indefinite; of the actual it is definite and of individuals [Aristotle]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
11256 Materialists cannot explain change [Aristotle, by Politis]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
9064 Objects such as a cloud or Mount Everest seem to have fuzzy boundaries in nature [Keefe/Smith]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance
9044 If someone is borderline tall, no further information is likely to resolve the question [Keefe/Smith]
9048 The simplest approach, that vagueness is just ignorance, retains classical logic and semantics [Keefe/Smith]
9055 The epistemic view of vagueness must explain why we don't know the predicate boundary [Keefe/Smith]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness
9049 Supervaluationism keeps true-or-false where precision can be produced, but not otherwise [Keefe/Smith]
9056 Vague statements lack truth value if attempts to make them precise fail [Keefe/Smith]
9058 Some of the principles of classical logic still fail with supervaluationism [Keefe/Smith]
9059 The semantics of supervaluation (e.g. disjunction and quantification) is not classical [Keefe/Smith]
9060 Supervaluation misunderstands vagueness, treating it as a failure to make things precise [Keefe/Smith]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / g. Degrees of vagueness
9050 A third truth-value at borderlines might be 'indeterminate', or a value somewhere between 0 and 1 [Keefe/Smith]
9061 People can't be placed in a precise order according to how 'nice' they are [Keefe/Smith]
9062 If truth-values for vagueness range from 0 to 1, there must be someone who is 'completely tall' [Keefe/Smith]
9063 How do we decide if my coat is red to degree 0.322 or 0.321? [Keefe/Smith]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories
12347 The immediate divisions of that which is are genera, each with its science [Aristotle]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
16654 Our words and concepts don't always correspond to what is out there [William of Ockham]